AutoCAD History - when did it become windows compatible?

[chulse]

Maybe a dumb question, but at what release was AutoCAD a "windows" program and not plain DOS?

[ReMark]

Everything about all the various releases of AutoCAD you ever what to know can be found here.

http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_th...e-history.html

[ReMark]

I want to say it was Release 13 in November of '94 running on Windows 3.11 but I'd have to look it up myself. I did not load this version. I waited for Release 14.

[fuccaro]

Nice question! Thread moved to the "History" forum.

[chulse]

Nice question! Thread moved to the "History" forum.

I hadn't even realized we had a History forum...

[Teeds]

I hadn't even realized we had a History forum...

What ... you didn't know we had a history forum. You need to get out more!

I'm over 50 ... can I become a registered landmark?

ReMark is right as far as I remember. The version I bought for myself originally was a copy of 13 for Windows. The firm I was working for didn't want it because it was for Windows, and we were all on DOS with R12. I was the IT/CAD guru flunky among all my normal everyday assignments of running a studio of folks. Since they didn't want it, I picked it up for myself. It cost me $600.00 ... and was "used" in the sense it came from another architectural firm.

I don't know what the street price was for AutoCAD back then. My excuse is my halfheimers.

[Coosbaylumber]

Well, late in the life of R-12 they were pushing a version that worked within Windows 3.1. Up to the widespread use, Autocad was a DOS only entered software. You could establish a link over to it though.

You had to have a Windows compatible printer and plotter (and 3 1/2 inch drives), as everything was Windows driven. Years before Win 95 or R-13 was on the market. Autocad LT was a work of Windows 3.1 (came on 5" disks) and same drivers worked on the bigger more expensive version.

The drawing files created by Windows for Autocad and for DOS interchanged with one another.


Wm.

[wupearls]

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[fuccaro]

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[Coosbaylumber]

Long before there was an Autocad, I think circa 1980 or 1981 a couple of fellows came to our office and visited, talking about our connection in to the plotter, the plotter language, etc. For they knew in the pipeline was the IBM personal computer and wanted to connect in.

Few years later when Autocad was on the market and the very same control language for plotters was installed and ready to go. They do not even make those plotters anymore, nor parts are available.


Wm.